After a long fight, Raytheon wins $1 billion cybersecurity contract with Homeland Security
Finally ending a long battle over a major contract, Raytheon won — again — a $1 billion, five-year cybersecurity contract from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for a project called DOMino, short for Development, Operations and Maintenance. The contract was first awarded in 2015 but was quickly protested by Northrup Grumman. After another protest in 2016 alleged flawed evaluations and conflicts of interest because Raytheon hired a former DHS official, this latest award, made June 9, represents a significant win for Raytheon’s cyber business. The Massachusetts-based company, long one of the world’s largest military contractors, will be “the prime contractor and systems integrator” to defend the .gov domain in support of DHS’s National Protection and Programs Directorate, a company press release explained Monday. The project tasks them with defending more than 100 federal government departments and agencies as part of DHS’s next generation National Cybersecurity Protection System (NCPS). NCPS is known operationally as EINSTEIN, a DHS tool […]
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